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Trails watchmen are there to push mountain-bike agenda
Thank you for your article, Watchmen on Duty. What Mark Wood, who is a paid North Shore Mountain Bike Association employee, fails to mention is that...

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Like Sven Baertschi was ever going to fit in Calgary.
The former junior stud and top-15 pick doesn’t exactly scream Brian Burke. He’s skilled, soft and needles toward undersized.
But he has skill for days, and he has an outspoken father, Hans Ruedi, who ripped head coach Bob Hartley for putting his son in a “straightjacket.”

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The book on the B.C. Lions in the court of public opinion around the time Mike Benevides coached his last game for the CFL team seemed clear. The defence was solid, at least up until the final month, but the offence needed work to become watchable again. The book being put together by general manager Wally Buono and new coach Jeff Tedford suggests something else.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — On a slow NHL trade-deadline day for the Columbus Blue Jackets, general manager Jarmo Kekalainen dealt seldom-used defenseman Jordan Leopold for a younger blue-liner – and made Leopold’s family very happy. It is easily the good news […]

NHL general managers usually like their teams at this point of the season. Some love their teams. This trade deadline wasn’t made for that line of thinking. With no clear-cut Stanley Cup front-runner and a wide-open playoff picture, all but […]

The Calgary Flames delivered a devastating blow on Monday and it had absolutely nothing to do with the National Hockey League trade deadline. Heart-and-soul captain and their Norris Candidate defenceman — Mark Giordano — is done for the 2014-15 season. The 31-year-old, who was on pace for a career-best year, suffered a torn biceps tendon […]

IRVING, Texas — Dez Bryant will get four more months to work on a long-term deal with the Cowboys and make $12.8 million next year after the team used its franchise tag on the star wide receiver. Bryant led the […]

NEW YORK — The NFL’s salary cap is going up $10 million to $143.28 million for the 2015 season. All 32 teams and the players’ union were notified Monday of the increase, the second straight season the cap went up […]

Hey, honey, can we postpone the honeymoon? That’s the question Jimmy Choi asked his wife Angelina over the weekend after one of the biggest underdogs in the B.C. boys high school basketball world miraculously punched its ticket to the 2015 Telus Quad A provincial championship tournament March 11-14 at the Langley Events Centre.

MESA, Ariz. — Pat Venditte is used to it by now. Teammates, coaches and others regularly stop him for a chance to check out his one-of-a-kind glove, the same one he has used for years featuring space for either hand. […]

NEW YORK — Michael Jordan and two other NBA owners have joined Forbes’ annual list of the world’s billionaires. Forbes released its list of billionaires on Monday and noted that Jordan’s net worth is estimated at $1 billion, thanks to […]

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Padraig Harrington captured his first PGA Tour title in more than six years on Monday when he birdied the final hole in regulation and then beat 21-year-old rookie Daniel Berger on the second hole of […]

I have to agree, it was kind of weird. It’s like celebrating a one month anniversary with your girlfriend. After a huge fight at the Old Spaghetti Factory (The Buffalo Sabres of restaurants, lets not lie).

As their own version of March Madness commenced Sunday — 16 games compacted into 31 days — the Vancouver Canucks got a good glimpse at what next month may look like if they're playing beyond April 11 and run into one of those heavy Stanley Cup contenders.